List: Brown Foundation grant recipients

Here is a list of the latest grant recipients approved by the Brown Foundation board (in most cases, the grants are for partial project funding, or require matching sums to be raised from other sources):

? $2 million, toward the cost of developing the planned YMCA West Louisville branch on West Broadway, near Dixie Highway. The new branch, expected to open in 2015, will be built on former Philip Morris property donated to the YMCA.

? $1.2 million, for Cedar Lake Lodge to build a prototype residence for its handicapped residents away from its campus near LaGrange. It has options on land in Jefferson, Oldham and Shelby counties, with the final site of the project yet to be decided.

? $1 million, for the West End School, 3628 Virginia Ave., to help develop dormitory space for its inner city, middle-school students.

? $750,000, Louisville Library Foundation, to help build the new Southwest Regional Library on Dixie Highway.

? $750,000, Kentucky Science Center, to help expand its early childhood-education facilities, Science in Play.

? 500,000, Waterfront Development Corp., to help put special lighting on the Big Four Bridge.

? $500,000 for WaterStep to help renovate its new headquarters at 625 Myrtle St. in Louisville.

? $500,000, Kentucky Nature Conservancy, toward the $1.2 million cost to acquire 303 acres in Garrard County along the Kentucky River. The conservancy has the rest of the needed funds committed, said spokeswoman Cadell Walker.

? $400,000 for the Frazier History Museum to help renovate the main entryway to its facility on West Main Street, and also to renovate some exhibit space.

? $363,874 for St. Mary's Center Inc. to finish construction of its new headquarters at 14207 Aiken Road. The agency that serves as a day center for developmentally and mentally disabled adults has been operating in a former church for nearly 20 years, said spokeswoman Ann Hurst.

? $250,000, for YouthBuild, 812 S. Preston St. in Smoketown, to help pay for a vocational-training building at the site. The organization sponsors programs designed to help low-income young adults find work and develop job skills.

? $125,000, New Hope Services in Jeffersonville, Ind., for a senior housing project for the agency that provides services primarily to the elderly.

? $124,000 for the Network Center for Community Change, to help the Brown Foundation develop a plan to identify and address charitable needs in West Louisville.

? $120,000 for the Center for Non-profit Excellence for a website and technology development project.

? $120,000 for the Louisville Urban League to help pay a development official who is to help stabilize the agency's finances over a three-year period.

? $75,000, for the Asia Institute (Crane House), 1244 S. Third St., a challenge grant to help pay for an outreach coordinator for the agency that provides services primarily to Asians and to upgrade an elevator at the facility.

? $25,000, for the Louisville Visual Arts Association for the cost of developing a strategic plan.

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List: Brown Foundation grant recipients

Here is a list of the latest grant recipients approved by the Brown Foundation board (in most cases, the grants are for partial project funding, or require matching sums to be raised from other